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The DOLLY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,355 18724 0 5
United States (1880 census) 441 10677 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +914 -8047 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 18 56960 0 1
United Kingdom 39 26826 0 1
Top States for DOLLY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 222 1249 0.012 123
Maryland 151 4106 0.003 29
New York 108 18045 0.001 6
Virginia 89 8204 0.001 13
New Jersey 81 12581 0.001 10
Top States for DOLLY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 222 1249 0.012 123
Maryland 151 4106 0.003 29
Virginia 89 8204 0.001 13
New Jersey 81 12581 0.001 10
South Dakota 7 15297 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DOLLY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DOLLY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DOLLY in West Virginia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DOLLY by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DOLLY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DOLLY surname.

Ethnic distribution of DOLLY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 189 13.95
Mixed Race 21 1.55
White (Hispanic) 11 0.81
White (Caucasian) 1,121 82.73
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DOLLY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

DOLLY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DOLLY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DOLLY.

Similar names to DOLLY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOLLY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DOLLY

The following words are slight variants of DOLLY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.